... s your blood sugar quite low. Check with your doctor about this. Also, if you happen to have a friend with a blood sugar meter, check your glucose level when you feel this way. It's not a definitive test, but it may give you an idea and a bit of information to present to your doc. ... (1 replies)

... Busymomathome: Generally when you have low sugars you have to treat them with a fast acting sugar - juice, glucose tablets, lifesavers, candy, etc. to get your sugars to go higher. Metformin is used to help insulin work in T2 diabetics. If you're taking too much of it then that's probably why your low all the time. Do you feel the symptoms of being low: dizzy, hungry,... (8 replies)

... ar would be low because I hadn't eaten in a while and I was feeling hungry too. This has happened before and I tested one other time and my sugar was 50. Since I feel the same I assumed it was low again, but it wasn't! 121 is pretty high for not having eaten in 4 hours right? ... (0 replies)

... Hi Sam, thank you for replying..... I feel in myself that I have diabetes, because I just feel so unwell, I cannot begin to tell you how ill I feel. Its not like when I had cancer, this is so different.... ... (16 replies)

... I've been a diabetic on oral meds for about 14 months. I'm still trying to get my meds and eating habits adjusted, but my last A1c test was 7.0, equivalent to an average reading of 154 blood glucose. ... (3 replies)

... ell in my nose, I pee tons during the day and night, mild ankle edema at the end of the day, and I have lost 9 kg of weight over 6 months very unintentionally, I feel starving but eating makes me feel sick so I am probably eating the exact same amount as before, joint swelling and 2 week late menstrual periods. ... (2 replies)

... The other day, we went to the store and he felt shaky. tested and it was 75.. he ate a luna bar and half a banana.. not much longer after he tested again and he was 27 There are times before dinner he is 145 and hour or two aftereating he is 40.. and this is without bolusing! ... (5 replies)

... was always perfectly fine. To make a LONG story short, hubby had some cancer issues a year and a half ago and I practically lived at the VA hospital, so between eating way off schedule, worrying and not sleeping right, my nerves were totally shot, that is when things went wacky. ... (17 replies)

... he sensation of feeling "off" will go away within minutes, which makes me think it's a blood sugar issue and not a thyroid problem, but within 2 hours or so even aftereating a big meal I will crave something sweet. ... (1 replies)

... Nutrition board and after some reading, decided to post it here as well. I've noticed some strange reactions my body has been having aftereating, although it seems to differ, depending on what I eat. ... (3 replies)

... en when I arrived an hour later they took the blood level and it was 89. I don't have the results yet for the 1hr and 2hr levels, but the only symptoms I had was after drinking the sugar I felt a little warmer and became very relaxed and quite drowsy. The test really wasn't that bad for me. ... (6 replies)

... eat more protein and lower carbs, and absolutely never eat carbs without also eating some protein. The reason for this is that in hypoglycemics, ingestion of carbohydrates causes the pancreas to overreact and produce too much insulin... ... (4 replies)